Coloured indentation lines

[jdaw1]

Sublime has helpful vertical indentation lines, spanning indentation blocks.

Behold!


It would much aid the eye if these lines were not all the same. Perhaps there could be a three rotation of colours, {grey, red, blue} (no green to help most of the colour blind), and an alternation of dotted and solid, resulting in a period-six cycle.

It would assist the speedy perception of matching indentations.

Thank you.

(FTR, first mentioned by me in this post, but only as an aside.)

[jfcherng]

Built-in is another thing but are you interested in a plugin which may satisfied your need?

Configured https://packagecontrol.io/packages/BracketHighlighter:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6594915/122662678-5fbf4600-d1c7-11eb-9e17-ba0ece12e67b.mp4

[jwortmann]

@jfcherng Your video looks like it is exactly what the built-in "indent_guide_options" setting does, e.g. "indent_guide_options": ["draw_normal", "draw_active"] or "indent_guide_options": ["draw_normal", "draw_active_single"]. You may want to adjust the "active_guide" and "stack_guide" global colors in your color scheme if you want them to stand out more.

But I think the request is rather to allow permanently different colors/styles for each indent guide, and independently of where the cursor is.

[jdaw1]

the request is rather to allow permanently different colors/styles for each indent guide, and independently of where the cursor is.

Yes, this. And not so much ‘allow’ as have by default: the suggested small recolouration can’t hurt at all.

[jdaw1]

The colours in this test example this are too strong: the the blue and orange should be desaturated. But it gives an idea. And rather than solid lines maybe it should alternate between [1 1] dashing and [3 3] dashing.


[jdaw1]

New test example. Three colours, two dashings: [1 1]; [3 3]. Still wrong: the orange is now a touch too faint.